It is an imaginary number created by investors to give themselves a credit line that never has to be paid back. It is simply socialized through the process of austerity and prison, and of course, war. Medicare/social security isn't the plantation. Your bigoted trickle down economy is, and it must be burned to the ground and the ashes buried deep.

You can either have this, or this. You want to feed your addiction to apathetic convenience? These are the choices you leave yourselves so far. Kinda puts the anti-pipeline people at a small disadvantage. I don't know if tar can blow up this good

And what is to become of the archived monkey poo? The entire internet is in there! The REAL internet, not the scandalous, frequently altered, plastic surgery fluff you see everywhere else. No, Slashdot archives are pure, write once! Read forever... I can only hope for the best...

Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. -- 2 Timothy 2.23-24

Biblical message about the republicans, and how to respond:

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-- having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone. -- 2 Timothy 3.1-9

Biblical message on the effect of republicans over the last few years:

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. -- 2 Timothy 4.3-4

He certainly is. I'm registering as a republican to make sure he gets the nom. Nobody is even remotely more representative of the present day republican voter. It will be like switching their favorite coffee with Folgers Instant Coffee Crystals. They won't know the difference. In fact they'll probably want a second cup.